In my software R&D team at Tangram (Zeist, regio Utrecht) we need another good senior software engineer or an experiences software architect (hands-on).
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Monday, February 8, 2010
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Bootstrapping Agile: Stand-up Meetings
For a software development team and process to be most effective, it is important that it has the right dynamics and interactiveness. Agile helps a lot with this, but how to get started with this?
How to bootstrap Agile?
My experience is that changes in any environment work best if executed in small steps: everyone can quickly learn from each small change and enjoy the resulting success.
So what I am doing to bootstrap Agile in my current team and development process is this: one of the simplest and most effective practices of Agile processes is the Daily Stand-up meeting.
Why start with Daily Stand-up meetings?
Getting started
Long story short: getting started is easy.
Agree on a daily meeting time, make sure everyone stands during the meeting, and have every team member follow this meeting agenda:
How to bootstrap Agile?
My experience is that changes in any environment work best if executed in small steps: everyone can quickly learn from each small change and enjoy the resulting success.
So what I am doing to bootstrap Agile in my current team and development process is this: one of the simplest and most effective practices of Agile processes is the Daily Stand-up meeting.
Why start with Daily Stand-up meetings?
- It is easy to explain and works in all existing environments, you do not have to change existing waterfall approaches for example.
- It speeds up teams, because it helps team members to help each other out early in the process: team members communicate everyday what they are doing and what issues they are running into.
- You quickly see results, which helps to boost self-confidence and openess to other best practices.
- And last but not least: it creates closer teams, with the right stand-ups you get a sense of excitement and proactiveness that brings the team members closer together and increases productivity.
Getting started
Long story short: getting started is easy.
Agree on a daily meeting time, make sure everyone stands during the meeting, and have every team member follow this meeting agenda:
- What did I do yesterday
- What are my plans for today
- What problems am I running into
Monday, January 4, 2010
Happy 2010 and let's innovate innovate innovate
2010 has started, time for all software developers out there to develop great new things and help our economies to get out of the crisis with great new ideas and features.
I myself will be doing this at Tangram as R&D Manager; sites like http://www.pickthebest.nl/ are my new challenge!
Development never stops.
Happy New Year!
I myself will be doing this at Tangram as R&D Manager; sites like http://www.pickthebest.nl/ are my new challenge!
Development never stops.
Happy New Year!
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